| Homeless Colonies Continue to Grow Along Vallarta’s Canals Milton Colmenares - Tribuna de la Bahia | |
| go to original December 23, 2023 |
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The number of homeless people has grown alarmingly in the last few years in Puerto Vallarta and many of them have created "colonies," taking advantage of public spaces to settle down.
One place that has been used as a home for these people for weeks now is the canal of the highway beltway, especially the spaces under the vehicular bridges.
CPS Noticias visited the canal and was able to corroborate that there are small shacks built under the bridges, made mainly of cloth and cardboard.
There is also a good amount of garbage, as these people are dedicated to scavenging and take bags with waste to remove aluminum or cardboard, which they then sell, but the rest of the garbage is left on the canal bed.
In addition to this, the homeless people relieve themselves in the open air and cause a nuisance, especially with the nearby merchants.
A few weeks ago, this newspaper reported a colony of homeless people living under the bridge at the intersection of the highway and Francisco Villa, who were immediately removed by the authorities.
However, they were only a few meters along the same channel and are now installed again.
The problem of homeless people is getting worse as the months go by and no level of government has taken action to find a solution before the tourist destination is affected.
See the original at Tribuna de la Bahia
Related: Homeless Take Over the Alfonso Díaz Santos Sports Unit (Tribuna de la Bahia)
Related: ‘Just a Piece of Meat’: How Homeless Women Have Little Choice but to Use Sex for Survival (The Conversation)
This material was translated from Spanish using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process.
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